It’s been quite a while since a Christmas tree has graced the halls of La Casa de Replicantes. I’ve been thinking about getting a nice fake one. However, I think that the Uncanny Valley applies to Christmas trees just much as it does to humans. In my...

It actually feels like winter here. Outside, the wind is not just blowing, not just sighing through the trees, or howling in the windows, but is actually roaring. A record amount of rain has fallen on San Diego today, 1.25 inches. While it is...

What’s on your desktop this week? Mine has an image of the dark side of the Earth: This image was taken by the Rosetta space probe as it performed its third and final swingby of Earth last month. The data gathered during this flight may help explain...

Now Reading: Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A. Limoncelli. Just Finished: The New Space Opera by Gardner Dozois. In the beginning, there was Science Fiction. And just after that, there was Space Opera: epic tales of alien...

With the last weekend of November all but over, those of us participating in NaNoWriMo are either almost done or have long since given up. However, for those of us who’ve got that strange mixture of tenacity and procrastination that finds us with two...